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Evidence Of Blood
...Into the Web
Bantam, June 2004, 6.99, 251 pp.
ISBN 0553580922
When Roy Slater left Kingdom County to go to college, he vowed he would never return. Nobody, not his father or the woman he loves, wanted him. Guilt makes him return to care for his father who has only a few months left to live. Lila, his only love, lives in the poorest section of the country but he doesn't expect to see her because she wrote him a note saying she wouldn't marry him.
To temp...Peril
Bantam, Feb 2004, 23.95, 320 pp.
ISBN 0553800981
Mortimer has three months left at best to live and he has nothing to leave his wife but shattered dreams and hopes. All his money was lost at the track and he is into loan shark Leonardo Labriola for $15,000 with no way to pay it. Labriola's son Tony finds out his wife Sara left him and he does not have a clue why but his father is rabid that his daughter-in-law must be found.
Leonardo's henchm...The Chatham School Affair
Aman looks back on his student days and attempts to analyze a tradgedy that happened in his youth. Author Cook knows how to hold his readers in suspense, and keep them fascinated by his characters, his prose, and his plots. A superior read in every sense....

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The Interrogation
Bantam, April 2002, 23.95, 304 pp.
ISBN 0553800957
Fourth grader Cathy Lake was supposed to meet her mother in the lobby of her friend's apartment building but failed to show up. Shortly after she was reported missing her twisted bloody body was found in the park near the duck pond. The police questioned several of the homeless that live in the park before arresting twenty-six years old Albert Jay Smalls, a vagrant who resides in a drainpip...